tuesday. we may continue the count quite some time. manu, appreciate it. thanks for your time today. brianna keilar picks up after a very quick break. i'm sorry, she picks up coverage right now. have a great day. hi there, i am brianna keilar. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. we're in an unprecedented place now. more than 84 million ballots have already been cast, well over half the total turnout in 2016. experts say we are entering a scary time in this pandemic. the highest single day total for coronavirus cases since the pandemic began was yesterday. nearly 90,000 americans were infected and almost 1,000 americans died. experts are warning that death rate could triple by beginning of next year. and this chart shows you how bad the moment is compared to others. it took more than three months

for the u.s. to reach the first million cases. we're now recording 1 million cases in two weeks. 43 states are increasing cases, they're seeing increases in cases, president trump and former vice president joe biden are both in battleground states. biden is pitching himself as the candidate to lead america out of the crisis and president trump is arguing that the crisis is overblown. omar jimenez is in waterford township, michigan where the president is having a rally this hour. jef zeleny is in des moines where biden is having a campaign event. omar, michigan is seeing big numbers. they just set a record single day high for new cases. are they taking any precautions at this event? >> well, that's exactly right. set a record for daily single cases yesterday as we have seen numbers grow. at this rally, we have thousands of people here, some have masks, a lot don't. you can probably see over my

shoulder how closely people are packed in. that has to be concerning from a public health standpoint. the enthusiasm on the voting side seems to be alive and well here in michigan. obviously this is part of a final push by the trump campaign to campaign in the state they won by less than a percentage point going back to 2016 presidential election. the question is, though, how many people are there left to influence when you look at the turnout we have seen so far. based on early vote numbers we have seen, we have more than 50% of the total voter turnout coming from the 2016 presidential election. the secretary of state in michigan says they've had 78% of people requested absentee ballots return them already, days before the presidential election. also in michigan we expect president obama and joe biden to be here tomorrow campaigning as part of a final push. today, this is only the first

stop for president trump. he is expected after this rally in michigan to head to wisconsin and finish up the day in minnesota. he is expected to arrive here any minute now as you hear people cheering behind me. >> these long days ahead of election day. zeleny, tell us about iowa. how does this factor in biden's path to victory? >> reporter: as you well remember, president trump carried iowa by nine percentage points in 2016. so this is not viewed as a top battleground state for joe biden at all. things of course have changed. the presidential battleground is indeed pandemic battleground. iowa has arising number of cases, rising number of deaths. joe biden is coming to the state. you can see this is a drive in rally, same ones he has been hosting across the country. they are embracing and leaning into the difference in campaigning. not doing big rallies like president trump is doing but holding socially distant drive in rallies. the sheer fact he is coming to

iowa is a sense that he is trying to encroach on president trump's territory. president trump we're told now will be also campaigning here in iowa in dubuque on the eastern part of the state. one of the counties he flipped from obama to trump. there were 31 such counties in iowa. that's what changed from president obama winning in iowa in 2008 and 2012, and president trump winning in 2016. we'll see if the map resets. as joe biden begins in iowa, he is going to minnesota and then going to wisconsin. so it is this area of the midwest and upper midwest that we will be looking to on election night to see if these trump states are going to turn or not. but brianna, so interesting. so many other races going on. big race for the u.s. senate as well, watching for control of the senate. joanie ernst in a tight race with teresa greenfield. several congressional races as well. joe biden coming to lead the

ticket. he didn't expect to be here nine months after placing fourth in iowa caucuses in february. >> thank you so much to both of you. it was hard to imagine the cruel dismissal of the virus from the white house and allies getting more absurd. a grinning donald trump jr. decided to show up on planet fox trying to convince millions of those viewers that people are not really dying from this. >> i went through the cdc data, kept hearing about new infections. i was like why aren't they talking about this. oh, because the number is almost nothing because we have gotten control of this thing. we understand how it works. they have the they are purapeut. look at my instagram. it has gone to almost nothing. outperforming europe in a positive way, so well because we

have gotten a hold of this. >> these people are not almost nothing. these people are everything to their friends and families.

my next guest is carlos sanchez, director of public affairs for hidalgo county in texas. he contracted covid-19 and almost died. he penned a powerful piece entitled covid is killing my people and no one seems to care. carlos, thank you so much for being here to talk about your experience and that of your community. you describe your hospital stay in gut wrenching detail really. tell our viewers what it was like. >> i think the operative word, brianna, is fear. it is a very scary fact when you realize that you may have contracted this disease from which we have been hearing about since the february, march time frame. i felt initial symptoms july 1st on my 60th birthday. i went through 12 days of on and off fever and body aches before

a doctor said get to the hospital now. and that was also a time when the county had self turned into a hot spot and the numbers that are being seen today had been seen in the july period not only across the country but in particular in south texas where i live. >> and you share in what you wrote some of the exchanges you had with nurses. i am going to read part of what you wrote. you said one night i saw sadness in the eyes of a nurse from georgia and i asked if everything was all right. i've had three patients code on me tonight, using the medical term for cardio pulmonary arrest. how many survived? one. another night i was awakened by a nurse for my vital signs. she leaned forward and whispered to me, you have to get out of here, this place is dangerous. what did you think she meant,

how did you feel when you heard her say that. >> i know exactly what she meant. first, i have to commend the nurses that came from as far away as georgia, alabama, mississippi to supplement the local staffing which had been overwhelmed in july. i got to know many of them by simply sharing with them every time they checked my vitals, and that was fairly frequently. and it began a process of opening my eyes as to what was happening in the rest of the hospital, it was a hospital that was overwhelmed much as the entire medical structure in hidalgo county had been overwhelmed. when the nurse said you have to get out of here, i knew exactly what she meant because i had seen so much evidence of death and dying through the eyes of the nurses that had come to check on me around the clock. >> i know that you used that in your policy making as well.

i wonder as someone who's so intensely involved in making policy around this and someone listening to minimizing of the deaths, you heard the president's son, donald trump jr. say death from covid are almost nothing. what's your reaction to that? >> similar to the reaction when president trump himself went into the hospital and emerged several days later with stature of a conquering hero. this is not a disease to be trifled with. this is a disease that can kill you and it is certainly a disease that can effect you. i have been out of the hospital for three and a half months and i am still suffering from symptoms of the disease. a couple weeks ago, i had a ct scan which indicated there's still scarring in my lungs. so for those who minimize or

suggest that this disease is nothing, i take great issue with that. >> carlos sanchez, i want to thank you so much for what you wrote and thank you for coming on. great to see you. thanks. >> thank you for having me. the second wave of the pandemic in 1918 was much worse than the first. we're going to discuss what that tells us about what to expect. plus, new evidence that republicans are starting to narrow democrats in early voting in four key states. and new reporting that joe biden is zeroing in on one state to spend the last day before the election. this is cnn special live coverage. sofi made it so easy to pay off my student loan debt. they were able to give me a personal loan so i could pay off all of my credit cards. i got my mortgage through sofi and the whole process was so easy. choosing sofi was literally one of the best decisions i could have ever made because it gave me peace of mind.

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a second wave, and the president of the united states continues to falsely claim that the country is rounding the corner on the pandemic. dr. raj is joining us, associate professor of medicine and nyu. we do know that the last time the u.s. dealt with a pandemic, tracking similarly to this, was in 1918. and i think this is one of the things a lot of doctors were looking at in the beginning because they felt like a lot changes in 100 years, but human behavior does tend to be form lay i can. what's the second wave of that telling us about what to expect now? >> brianna, there are similarities and big differences. the spanish flu had a second wave that was deadlier than the first. it doesn't look like coronavirus is mutating to a deadlier form

which is what happened in 1918, that's good news. but some of the same conditions that made a second wave worse still exist today, winter colder months, bringing people closer together, and the fact that it is flu season during that time, so more people will be overwhelming hospitals, getting sick, there will be confusion of diagnosis. all of that is going to lead to a bigger crisis in the hospital than we're seeing now in the next two months. but i will say that a lot has changed. anti-by ott i cans didn't exist. it is easier for the virus to spread. it is not easy to make direct correlations or comparisons. truth is, in the winter these viruses get worse because of proximity of people and coexist tense of regular flu. >> can you tell us what we are seeing with survival rates? they appear to be improving, even for seriously ill patients, and yet experts are warning the

death rates could triple by mid january. why is that? >> right. so you're getting two pieces of information here. good news is even for severe patients that are in the hospital, the death rates have decreased very dramatically. if you were talking about almost 30% of hospitalized patients back in march, this was a study done at nyu, now that death rate seems to be down to 8%. 8% is still very high for hospitalized patients dying of any disease, still much better than before. we can attribute that to knowledge about the disease, better treatments, better resources of doctors and nurses and researchers learning more about how to treat the disease more effectively. on the flip side, numbers are rising dramatically and because of that, you are going to see more people getting sick, more people becoming severely ill, and ultimately, more people dying. so yes. if you go by percentage basis for the people in the hospital, there's lower chance of dying, but overall we're going to have

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texans are turning out in record numbers to vote early. the state has already passed the 9 million vote mark, more than the total turnout in 2016. our cnn correspondents are covering all the action in the battleground states. >> reporter: i'm in westchester, pennsylvania, one of the suburbs of philadelphia, where the president needs to stop the bleeding as well's running up numbers in the red counties. more than 2 million people have

already voted here. in this area all right 115,000 mail-in ballots have been handed in. they can't be counted yet, but the county is working hard to sort though. it's going to be a sprint for pennsylvania's electoral votes. the president is holding four rallies here on saturday. joe biden, his wife jill biden and kamala harris are all expected to be in the state the day before election day. >> reporter: i'm miguel marquez in oakland county, michigan, a big suburban county, lots of votes here. some voters already lining up to vote. they can do in-person absentee vote if you really want to do it in person, you can do it, but it takes a bit of doing. donald trump is in oakland county today. in a little bit, interestingly enough, he lost oakland county in 2016 and went on to win the state by 10,000-plus votes. joe biden and barack obama will appear together in michigan

tomorrow, the first joint appearance. both sides trying to change the math here in michigan in the last few days and win this state. >> reporter: i'm bill weir in madison, wisconsin, where the line starts over here, goes past the mexican restaurant, the laundry and the martial arts studio way down there. 100 people or so in line here. 1.75 million ballots or so already cast in this key battleground state. they expect at least a million and a half more to show up. the president will be in green bay today, making up a cancellation from when he had covid. he's trying to shore up that blue collar vote up north. joe biden will be in milwaukee trying to motivate the black pastors in souls for the polls. more and more businesses in madison are boarding up their

windows. in fact my hotel, i asked is this why i think it is? they say, yeah, election protection. brianna, i never thought i would sigh mea home state preparing for election the way they do for hurricanes down south. bill, thank you so much. and my other colleagues, i appreciate it. there are early voters shattering records with other 80 million ballots cast. the early votes seem to -- but now republicans are catching up. cnn's phil mattingly is joining me now on this, so what states are you looking at here where republicans are closing the gap? >> look, i think if you look at the data right now, and one key thing, you know this as well as anybody, you can only divine things out of the early vote. you can't say this is definitively going to happen. we expected a surge, but i don't think anybody expected this much vote coming in. but, two, and these four states are a good example of this,

democrats were expected to vote in human numbers by mail. that has in large case turned out to be true. republicans were expected to vote in person, and in all of these states there are in-person early voting options. as those options have opened up, as more people have taken advantage, republicans have started to whittle the gap. you've seen it happen in florida, north carolina, nevada and iowa. you've seen it in a couple others states, too. that largely reflects what others are expecting, too. they knew more of their voters were going to vote by mail. they expected that, and they knew that republicans were more likely to turn out on election day. you're seeing that in the early vote as well. the big question, based on the numbers we seeing right now, is going into the actual election today, the democrats have enough cushion to hold on to those key battleground states.

>> for instance, pennsylvania, which is so key -- i mean both of these candidates, it's so key to them, on the day before the election you have joe biden and his wife jill biden, kamala harris and her husband, and they're all campaigning there as a final push for pennsylvania. how is this shaping up? >> yeah, look, there's nothing more valuable than a candidate's time. you add the candidate's spout, the vice presidential nominee and the nominee's spouse, it makes clear the priorities. pennsylvania is the key to the midwe midwest, to some they would say it's not the midwest. but the most electoral votes in those crucial midwest states. drurp won pennsylvania by the most. i think his turnout stunned everybody, because he turned out irregular voters and just crushed in areas that republicans did well, but never

did quite as well. what the biden campaign recognizes, is if they shut the door in pennsylvania, they likely will also shut the down in michigan, wisconsin, minnesota, michigan is the key that unlocks the midwest to reopening that blue wall to existing or reopening trump's pathway to reelection. there's a lot of talk about florida, but if they can win pennsylvania -- cnn's polls has four of five is pretty spot on on what they've seen, but they recognize they need to close -- they need to close the game. when you do that, that's where you show up the day before the final vote. i think hillary clinton was in philadelphia. you were probably there, if i recall correctly, bulk in 2016. >> yeah. >> didn't quite close the deal. i think the biden campaign will try to complete maybe what the clinton campaign couldn't, bri. >> at this point in the campaign it's a whirlwind where you are,

but i do recall being in philadelphia. definitely. it was a big event with barack obama. phil mattingly, thank you so much. good to see you. there are nearly two dozen lawmakers who have been infected with the coronavirus that we're aware of. find out how many are democrats and how many are republicans. we're going to roll the tape on that. plus a trend it emerging of republicans bailing on their debates. and a cnn reporter describes three different racist incidents of harassment against her during one single trip to the airport. amara walker will join me, live.

we know that short of having the country on lockdown, it's impossible to eliminate the risk of getting coronavirus, but you can mitigate that risk with masks, social distancing and other healthy practices. case in point -- two groups of people who have very different infection rates in the nation's capital. republican politicians and democrat. in both houses, 23 have tested positive, 16 of them republicans, 7 democrats. if you include in that number the two democratic senators who tested positive for antibodies,

but didn't test positive for the virus, republican lawmakers are still twice as likely to contract coronavirus based on the numbers that we have publicly here. countless more other staffers and capitol workers also infected, but the number on the red side gets bigger when you take a walk down to the white house. at least 22 people have been infected in the administration -- i say at least, because it's not the most exactly transparent the places, and coronavirus outbreaks tend to follow the president. cnn's sanjay gupta look at 17 locations where the president had rallies. in 82% of those locations, those counties where they took place saw infections rise soon after the president's visit. the rate of new cases in those counties grew faster than in the rest of their states. we know that many of the republican lawmakers who have been infected are taking cues

from the president. like lieuies gohmert, texas lawmakers. he was infamous for proudly rocking a naked face as he attended congressional hearings like this one. here is what he told cnn about why he refused to wear a mask, even after we had become aware as a nation that asymptomatic people can spread the virus and testing negative doesn't mean you are not infected. quote -- if i get it, you will never see me without a mask, i keep being tested. i'm not afraid of you, but if i get it, i'll wear a mask. when he got it, he blamed masks, even though he mostly refused to wear one. >> i don't now about everybody, but when i have a mask on, i'm moving to make it comfortable. i can't help but worn are wonder if that put some germs in the mask. >> doctors say that i highly

unlikely. senator mike lee, attending the super-spreader event at the rose garden chatting, hugging and gallivanting around with a naked face. he tested positive shortly after this. less than two weeks later he showed up in person for the %-p. then senator rand paul, who is an ophthalmologist, a medical doctor. he contracted the coronavirus early on, the first senator to do so. paul attended an event in kentucky with others who tested positive. he took a test, but instead of quarantining, he hit the senate gym, he swam some laps in the pool, and understandably he mace hi colleagues angry that he put their health at risk. months later, paul ticked off dr. fauci in a hearing, when the senator suggested new york was doing better, he claims wrongly, because it achieved herd immunity. >> they have develop enough

community immunity they're no longer having the pandemic because they have enough immunity to actually -- >> i challenge that. this happens with senator rand all the time. you are not listening to what the director of the cdc said, that in new york, it's about 22%. if you believe 22% is herd immunity, i believe you are alone in that. then just this week the senator showed up at a trump really where he fist bumped the president and the two toasted to their recoveries. >> here's to immunity! to immune people. >> it gets worse. the senator last week peddled this dangerous claim. >> 97% of viruses go through a cloth mask. the surgical mask is about 50%. the n95s do actually work. they're uncomfortable as hell. >> if you ask most medical

experts, they will take issue with that. the cdc set covers like cloth masks will help prevent the spread. he goes on. >> so much pessimism. the president said the virus will go away, they mock him and make fun of him. the virus will go away. every virus that's ever come has come and gone. could it come back? yes. but here's the good news. one thing about immunity, i've had it. i can't give it, i can't get it. >> yes, senator paul, dr. paul, you can. why are we supposed to get flu shots every year? because antibodies wear off. it's happening with the coronavirus. the first case of reinfection in the u.s. is just reported in nevada, where a man's second bout with covid was worse than the first. just this week we have seen more studies that show more immunity may only last months. rand paul was infected nearly eight months ago.

instead of masking up, he's giving tips on opening restaurants. >> if i owned a restaurant, i would have a whole wing for senior citizens or anybody who is worried about getting sick, and i would say all my servers have already had it. if i had a cruise ship, i would hire everybody, no exceptions, everybody would have had the infection that works on the boat. >> first off, we've already seen the senior citizen wing experiment. it's called nursing homes. it didn't go well. second, incentivizing people to catch coronavirus in order to get hired for a job, it's about as asinine as being exposed to covid, getting a text, and while waiting for it is prults pretending you're michael phelps in the senate swimming pool. wearing masks, socially distancing, washing hands, and protecting the most vulnerable. it shouldn't be partisan, even

if the infection rates on capitol hill show just how much it is. right now, the president and joe biden are holding rallies in two key states. this is in their final push. plus my colleague amara walker details not one, but three racist encounters back to back at one airport. she's going to join me next. we made usaa insurance for members like martin. an air force veteran made of doing what's right, not what's easy. so when a hailstorm hit, usaa reached out before he could even inspect the damage. that's how you do it right. usaa insurance is made just the way martin's family needs it with hassle-free claims, he got paid before his neighbor even got started. because doing right by our members, that's what's right. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. ♪ usaa try optum perks. it's a new way to save up to 80%. and everyone can do it. it's from optum, a health care company that's trusted by millions of people.

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amara walker is joining us now. thank you for writing about this. i think this was so important for people to understand what a lot of asians and asian americans in the u.s. have been going through. tell us what happened to you. >> that's why i wrote about it. i wanted to be a voice for so many of us who don't speak out when these things happen. i do want to say, brianna, if i had encountered just one racially charged incident yesterday, i probably wouldn't have posted about it. but the fact it happened back to back to back within the span of an hour, brianna is what shook me to my core. i have to ad34i9 i'm shaking right now. i still can't believe that i went through this. here's what happened. first incident, i'm walking through the airport, an older gentleman stops, he pulls down his mask, looks at me and says hello in chinese, and then a racial slur that's been used for decades. i was stunned.

this has happened before, sadly, but every time it happens, it shocks me. like i've done in the past. i just kept walking. i didn't know what to say. he walked away. the more i thought about it, my blood was just boiling, and thankfully i ran into him inside the terminal. he was standing right behind me when i was trying to bide souvenirs for my husband and my daughter. i turned around and said to him in a stern voice, do you understand what you said to me was racially charged? do you understand, sir? he kind of looked at me with a smug look, and he just said, i don't know what you're talking about, and he walked away. >> wow. >> so then i walked to the gate where my producer was sitting. i was like, you won't believe what just happened, here's what happened. i'm not kidding. as if on could youe, within fiv minutes, a young man walks up in front me while i'm sitting on a

gate, he's not wearing a mask, and he says hey, do you speak english? and i was like, i can't believe this is happening. i shot back pleadly. i was already angry. i said, yeah. why would you assume i don't speak english? tell me why would you assume that? he said, well, no, what language do you speak? i said, well, obviously english, but i speak spanish. i knew he was expecting i would say chinese, japanese, and then he started to mumble and speak income hereinly, like he was mocking the asian language. my producer was really disturbed by all of this. also the people who were sitting at the gate started yelling at him to get away from me. i kept telling me, leave me alone, we're in a pandemic. put on a mask. >> he was getting close. not wearing a mask and get close to you. >> he was in my personal space. >> then your producer basically

got security, right? got a police officer, and then what happened? >> yeah, he interjected. he said, officer -- this is where -- talk about pouring salt into a gaping wound, right? i told the officers what happened. my producer who was upset said, yeah, this guy was saying racial slurs to you. can you believe that? the police officers stopped, he approached my producer, literally again, almost nose to nose, and again we're in a pandemic. he said very angrily, that is not racist. asking someone if they speak english, that is not english, okay? do you understand me? this police officer was, i would say 6'4", he was huge. i was intimidated. everyone around us was watching. my poor producer was okay, okay, okay, fine, it wasn't racist. he walked away. they did track him down, but i

was so shaken by all of this and so disturbed my producer shooed me onto the plane and said you've got to get away from this. my producer was extremely defensive of me. also, there was about five or six people sitting at the gate who came to my -- and apologizing for no reason. they had nothing to apologize for, but they expressed their shock. >> thank goodness they were there to back you up and support you. you write in this, talking about getting made fun of as a child, but i also wonder if here in just the pre -- sort of the recent years, but the pre-covid era, did you ever experience anything like this? i know you travel a lot for work. have you ever been through anything like this? >> no, absolutely not. for it to happen -- these were all i believe unrelated incidents, but for it to happen

so quickly in succession, like 45 minutes to an hour, that's what knocked me off my feet. brianna, i want to make it clear, it's not about me. ation americans across the country deal with this on a regular basis, and many don't raise their voices, including myself. i probably wouldn't have written about this if it wasn't so egregious. i'm normally a private person, but i want to be the voice. i've gotten so many e-mails from strangers, even colleagues i have never met, and they said thank you so much for talking about this and explaining to people why its racially ensince tiff to assume that i don't speak english or anyone else. why would you assume that? you're saying that this is not american, that we are foreigners. you're marginalizing us. i wrote in my piece -- on my

post, i hate i have to say that i belong. i'm as american as you. why do i have to justify i'm american? why? because of the way i look? you're judging me by my skin color? >> you shouldn't have to. you normally tell other people's stories, so i know it's a we're position, but there's so many people who don't have the platform like you have. clearly they're appreciative this is being discussed. they're going through this. you unfortunately have been through this amara. i really want to thank you for coming on and talking about it and putting a face on it. >> can i mention one thing, brianna? i mentioned in my post that, you know, for the sake of the story, the first gentleman who approached me was a man of color. i got a bit of flack about that on social media. i mentioned it that there's a misconception only white people are racist. this man i believe looked to be south asian. >> amara, i appreciate you

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it is the top of the hour. i am brianna keilar. more than 84 million americans have already cast their ballot. with just four days to go, president trump and joe biden are both stumping in battleground states, biden arguing he should be the one to lead the u.s. out of this national crisis, trump arguing the whole thing has been overblown. despite the fact that yesterday markeded worst day yet for the country with coronavirus, with nearly